The secrets of a Howard's shirt

Understanding your expectations

After 21 years of research , prototypes and exchanges with you I was able to understand your expectations . All these years, your remarks have sharpened my choices, and above all helped to improve my production tools which, over time, have become the best in Europe.

When I started in the shirt-making profession , my shirts had to be quality . My vision begins with choosing the most beautiful fabrics , through neat finishes , a great rigor at each stage of manufacturing and a quality control without compromise.

I present these points to you in more detail below:


The choice of fabric

The choice of fabric is a decisive step during the development of a shirt : he is one of the guarantors of a sustainable clothing And comfortable . 

To answer our requirements in terms of quality , we appeal to know-how of the best Italian weavers , Swiss And English whose weaver Thomas Mason . Founded in 1796 , the company is still today a international reference in his field: shirt fabrics .

We obviously work with other weavers, some of whom are among the oldest in the world, such as Vitale Barberis Canonico , Canclini , Mounts , Sictess , Albini And Alumo to name a few.

Manufacturing of our shirts

Our shirts are shaped in a human-sized workshop , formerly a partner of the greatest fashion houses. Each seamstress there perpetuates a mastery of technique and of the rigor characteristic of the French way . 

What are we looking for?

Mostly ?

* From the sustainability , through technical rigor

* Looks and comfort , the result of expertise and of continuous prototypes.

Technically?

* Close seams (3 mm from the edge) 

* Collar foot canvassed (for greater comfort) 

* Collar assembled in 4 parts

* Pentagonal twill reinforcement swallows

* Buttons sewn on foot in the manner Chicken Zampa (in crow's feet)

* Last horizontal buttonhole (to prevent the shirt from "blousing" at the stomach) 

* Buttons in Australian mother-of-pearl : Mother of Pearl. Thick and iridescent, it is the finest quality in the world .

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